Английская Википедия:Acts of Shmona and of Gurya

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Шаблон:Short description The Acts of Shmona and of GuryaШаблон:Efn is a Syriac Christian martyrdom text. The setting takes place at Edessa during Roman Emperor Diocletian's Great Persecution.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

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The martyrdom account of Shmona and Gurya was first only known in an abridged version written by Symeon the Metaphrast,Шаблон:Sfn then the Acts of Shmona and of Gurya was discovered on a Syriac manuscript.Шаблон:Sfn The manuscript was translated to English by Francis Crawford Burkitt in his Euphemia and the Goth with the Acts of Martyrdom of the Confessors of Edessa (Amsterdam, 1913).Шаблон:Sfn

Narrative overview

The introduction of the text begins with mentioning names of current figures at the time in which the martyrdom began such as Diocletian, Aba, Bishop Qona, and Abgar son of ZoraШаблон:Sfn During the Diocletianic Persecution,Шаблон:Sfn the two martyrs dwelling in Edessa were compelled to worship the sun,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn but they refused to do so. An extensive discussion had occurred between the martyrs and the Eddessian governor MysianusШаблон:Sfn on why the two martyrs refused to worship the sun.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn They were killed after that.Шаблон:Sfn

Connection with other Syriac texts

Шаблон:See also The Acts of Shmona and Gurya and the Martyrdom of Habib are claimed to be authored by a Theophilus who also claims to have witness their martyrdoms.Шаблон:Sfn Scholars agree that the Acts of Shmona and of Gurya are fairly historically reliableШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn and record a martyrdom which took place around 297 AD.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn One scholar suggests that it was written in 309 or 310 AD.Шаблон:Sfn This makes the Acts one of the first Syriac hagiographies.Шаблон:Sfn It became a model for later, less historically reliable martyr stories such as the Acts of Sharbel and the Acts of Barsamya, which are widely regarded to be entirely fictitious.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Sebastian Brock considers the Doctrine of Addai, the Acts of Sharbel, the Martyrdom of Barsamya came from the same group of authors.Шаблон:Sfn

There is a list unique to the Doctrine of Addai, which names Addai's first Christian converts who are of nobility; The list reoccurs in the Acts of Sharbel and the Martyrdom of Barsamya. The names can be found in former pagan regions of Edessa dating back to the fourth and third century AD and are rarely mentioned in Syriac sources from the fifth century AD and after. Sebastian Brock states that the names were probably genuine ancestral names of those who authored all three texts, however, he doubts their conversion to Christianity. Further, he states the names mentioned in the Martyrdom of Barsamya and the Acts of Sharbel imitated literary writing styles from that of the Martyrdom of Habib and the Acts of Shmona and Gurya. With such a connection, Brock concludes the authors of the Acts of Sharbel and the Martyrdom of Barsamya were incorporating the ideal that their pagan ancestors had converted to Christianity, or they had a martyr prior to Shmona, Gurya, and Habib.Шаблон:Sfn

Evidence of the martyrs

The historicity of the text is considered reliable.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn Shmona and Gurya were reported to be buried at a place called "Beth Alah Qiqla".Шаблон:Sfn Relics of the two martyrs were found in Edessa,Шаблон:Sfn and Ephrem the Syrian mentions the martyrs in his Carmina Nisibena.Шаблон:Sfn The names of the two martyrs are also written on a Syriac calendar manuscript from 411 AD which lists names of martyrs from Edessa,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn and their names are written in the Menologion of Basil II.Шаблон:Sfn

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